"Nem tartják embernek ma sem" : az elmebetegség és a biohatalom összefüggéseiről Hajnóczy Péter szociográfiája nyomán

Absztrakt

Thanks to the work of Tamás Nagy, a more complete version of the sociography on the Home for the Mentally Ill in Szentgotthárd and on people under treatment in other social services has been published. My study uses this as a basis for discussing the relationship between mental illness and the biopower. Having clarified Foucault's notion of the biopower, some of the characteristics of modern institutions of confinement and mental institutions are examined. Subsequently, drawing on the volume entitled "Reports from the Pit", the inpatient mental health facility as a cruel biopower (disciplinary) institution will be discussed, with parallels to concentration camps and inhuman disciplinary institutions aimed at maintaining “peace and civilised order”.